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?Anna Margaretha Holb
m. by 1747? ?Frederick Co. VA b. 1724? d. Feb 3, 1810 Colonial America |
Anna Maria (Anne Marie) b. by 1748? ?Frederick Co. VA d. Nov 3, 1806 Natchez, Miss. Terr. |
Conrad b. 1755? Frederick Co. VA d. Apr 1809 Lincoln Co. NC |
William b. after 1756 Frederick Co. VA d. after 1800 ?Rowan Co. NC |
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David b. after 1756 Frederick Co. VA d. after 1800 ?Rowan Co. NC |
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In Frederick Co. VA there are deed records that name, as either witness or
owner of adjoining land between 1755 and 1774, individuals "Adolph Ilor"
and "Jonas Rhinehart". After Dunmore Co. was created from Frederick Co.
similar records name "George Rindhart" and his assignor "Mark Ilor"
between 1761 and 1774 [Northern Neck Land Grants, p.307]. During both of these
periods Adolphus Jonas Iler was born,
possibly named for siblings and/or parents of his parents. |
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Frederick Co. VA was formed in 1738 from Orange Co.
(see present day map
for location of Frederick Co. It is the northernmost county in VA, bordering WV
not far from the state of Maryland. Dunmore Co. VA was formed on May 15, 1772 but
renamed Shenandoah Co. on Feb 1, 1778 and now borders Frederick Co. to the southwest
(see present day map
[familysearch.org, "Virginia County Creation Dates... "]. |
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About 1767 daughter Anne Marie married Marcus Iler
in Frederick Co. VA and soon their first son,
Adolphus Jonas Iler, was born. After
apparently being separated from her husband during the war, she married William
Miller by 1770. By 1786 the Miller family was in the Natchez District,
witnessing a will there on Jun 25, 1787. |
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Son-in-law Marcus Iler seems to have arrived in
Natchez after 1775 when it was part of the Province of British West Florida, but
left when the Spanish took control. He then claimed land in the Cumberland
Settlement of Washington Co. NC because he was a single taxable there in 1787
(first year of taxation by NC) and a "Melchior Fain", also known as Marcus Fain,
assigned his 640 acres on the Little Harpeth River as a Private in the Continental
Army to Thomas Malloy, issued in 1797, but there is no entry date in the record
[NC Land Records website]. |
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The file number (2346), military warrant number (3634) and land grant number (2991)
of Melchior's 1797 land claim
were higher than those of all original claims in the area (between Hardiman's and
Thompson's Stations, near the Wilderness Trail or Natchez Trace to the west).
See Topolographical Map
showing this area around Little Harpeth River [Drake, map F8]. This claim
indicates that he arrived late to the Cumberland Settlement, possibly via the
Wilderness Trail up from Natchez, and had served at least one year in the war. |
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Map
of the Cumberland Settlement in 1780. |
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In May 1782, "Xphal Ryer & wife" arrived at Natchez without children or slaves.
The "wife" may be the "Eliza Ophill" in the St. Catherine's Creek area in one of
the translations of the 1792 Natchez District Census, identified as a widow (in
Spanish) of Iler [similar in sound to Ryer). The only other "familia" to arrive
that day without children was recorded as
William Barland under the name "Guillermo
Barland" [Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, record at the Archives General
of the Indies, Spain]. A total of
13 families
were recorded by Spanish authorities as arriving, and the record was signed by
Commandant Charles de Grand-Pré on Jul 6,
1782. |
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Map of
the Natchez District as it may have looked between 1779 and 1799. |
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In 1787, a George Forney sold to Marcus Tyler
[Iler], "140 arpents he purchased
from John Row, near the Fort, bordered by lands of John Hartley, John Lusk and
Saint Germain, for $400, $200 at end of
present year [1787]; $100 at end of 1788; $100 at end of 1789" [McBee, Book A,
p. 46]. This may be where Iler had begun building Hope Farm, which was eventually
bought by Natchez District Commandant
Charles de Grand-Pré to be his residence. |
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On Mar 19, 1789, "Having received notice from
Jonas Hailer of the death
of his father, Marcus Hailer, commandant
[Grand-Pré] and others repaired to his
plantation, 1 mile from Fort, to take an inventory of the deceased Marcus Hailer
who died interstate [without a will], whereupon Jonas Hailer was interrogated and
he made the declaration that his father had no children but the deponent and
that he left no wife" [McBee, Book B, pp. 247-8]. |
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Historians of the
Hope Farm
off of Homochitto Street in Natchez believe the back part was built by son-in-law
Mark Iler
about the time he arrived there in 1774-5 "while the city was under British rule;
the front wing was added by Carlos de Grand-Pré"
[Historic Houses of America, American Heritage Books, 1971], after he
purchased it from Jonas on Mar 21, 1789 for $100 a parcel of land ... my father
Marcus Hailer, purchased" [McBee, p. 581]. |
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In a 1789 deposition after the death of son-in-law
Mark Iler was reported by his son, Jonas,
"Joseph Fort" (Joseph Ford Sr.,
1724?-1804) said that Mark came to this country from England on the ship
Royal Oak with him about 14 years ago [1775] and "he did not know him to
be married nor that he had other children than the one present [Jonas] whose
mother died in America" [McBee, Natchez Court Records, Book B, p. 64].
Six "young men" came to West Florida in 1775 from England aboard the ship
Royal Oak, participated in the West Florida rebellion in Bayou Sara
(before it was part of the Natchez Dist. and now within Louisiana), and then
settled in the Natchez District [Louisiana Anthology, website]. |
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Bayou Sara no longer exists because the Mississippi River now runs through it.
In 1820 it was partly in Wilkinson Co. MS (formed in 1802 from a part of Adams Co.)
and a part of West Feliciana LA, south of the town of Natchez
(see present day map
for location of Wilkinson Co. and
present day map
for location of West Feliciana Parish. |
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A Spanish grant to "Mark Oiler" for 400 acres on St. Catherine's Creek, 5 mi. east
from Fort, bordered by lands of Mr. Andrews and Richard Adams, Lewis Bingaman and
Peter Surget (also in the 1792 Natchez Census) was mentioned later as the 400 acres
bordering lands of "Mrs. McIntosh" and
others, that was "sold by his lawful heir to Christian Harman [McBee, p. 384]. |
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On May 17, 1790, "Jonas Eiler" son of Marcus Iler
sold to William Barland "a mulatto woman
'Elizabeth', aged 25, nat. of America, with her four
children, for $700 specie, paid" [McBee, p. 78]. If she was the woman identified
by the Spanish as the "wife" of Marcus in May 1782, she would have been about 17
years old then. |
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According to a translation of the 1792 Spanish Census for the Natchez District,
there is no Barland household, but there is an "Oiler, the Gentleman" household
with 8 white members, and one black, living on 800 arpents of land. This would
have to be William Barland,
Elizabeth, their five children, and Jonas Iler,
the heir of the estate. The translator may have confused "Gentleman" for the
Spanish word for widow [Adams Co. Gen. Hist. Network]. |
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In 1800, sons "William Reinhard" and "David Rinehart" headed households on line
10 of page 328
and line 3 of page 382
of the Rowan Co. NC census, with the oldest males and females all born between
1756 and 1774 with many children and no slaves [U.S. Census 1800, Roll 33, v. 5,
National Archives website, pp. 328, 382]. |
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Will and Testament of William
Barland, Adams Co., MS, written Aug 15, 1806, proven in Apr 1816. |
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On Nov 3, 1806, daughter Anna Marie died in Natchez "on Monday evening
last in the "59th year of her age" [Mississippi Messenger, obituary of Mrs.
Anne M. Eiler, Nov 4, 1806]. |
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Sources: Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, "1792 Census for Natchez District (under Spanish Government control)", 2009, 1792 Census. Cumberland Compact, original document signed May 13, 1780, Washington County NC, website. Clayton, Prof. W.W., History of Davidson County Tennessee, reprod. 1971 by Charles Elder, Nashville TN. MS Dept. Archives & Hist., Will Book Vol. 1, Adams Co. Courthouse, Natchez MS, microfilm, Apr 1816. Drake, Doug, Jack Masters and Bill Puryear, Founding of the Cumberland Settlements, The First Atlas, 1779-1804, Warioto Press, 2009, map F8. McBee, May Wilson, comp., "Land Claims", in Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Book F, p.21. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, Book A, pp. 46, 64, 78, Book B, pp. 84, 247-8. MS Dept. of Archives & History (MDAH), Jackson MS, rootsweb, Americans Arriving in Spanish-Held Natchez 1780-1790. MSGenWeb, Natchez District 1792 Census Index, comp. by Ellen Pack, website, transcribed and translated from Spanish. North Carolina Land Grants, Davidson Co. TN, #2991, website Potter, Dorothy Williams, Passports of Southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823, Gateway Press, Baltimore MD, 1982, p. 342. Univ. of NC, Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, "Roster of the Troops in the Continental Army", vol. 16, on website, 1st Reginment, pp. 1060, 1073. U.S. 1800 Census, Roll 33, North Carolina, Volume 5, pp. 328, 382, including Rowan Co., National Archives website. Wells, Carol, Natchez Postscripts 1781-1798, Heritage Books, pp. 101, 144-5, 151, Whitley, Edythe Rucker, comp., Pioneers of Davidson Co., Tennessee, Clearfield Publ., 2009. |
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